🚗 Driving in BUCOVINA | Voroneț Monastery to Cacica Salt Mine | ROMANIA

Bucovina is a region in north-eastern Romania and corresponds, nowadays, to the Suceava county and only to the south of the historic Bucovina, the northern part being Ukrainian. The name is originally Germanic, where “Buchenland” means “The Country of Beeches”. The landscape is extremely beautiful, its terrain gradually decreasing from west to east. The lands of Bucovina encapsulate a rich history, ancient traditions and customs, unique monuments and medieval monasteries and churches, famous for their interior and exterior unique paintings.

One of the most important monuments in Bucovina is The Cacica Salt Mine is a special salt mine in Romania because it was built in 1791 and very little modernized to this day. In order to enter, one must walk down a wooden staircase, 200 years old, and composed of around 200 steps. The galleries are very narrow, until the large spaces are reached, where a ballroom, a sports-hall and a small church carved directly into the salt wall can be visited.

The Voronet Monastery is probably the most famous in Romania thanks to its unique color, the “Voronet Blue”, and it is a UNESCO monument. The monastery was founded in 1488 by Stephen III of Moldavia and the legend says that the mysterious 500-years-old color, which can’t be reproduced to this day, was created by the monks there, which were receiving huge amounts of “tuica”, a strong local alcoholic beverage made of plums, in order to work more happily. Since the quantities of alcohol were immense, the beautiful color might’ve been created using the alcoholic beverage as well.

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